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Full Idea
Thracians think that tattooing enhances a girl's beauty, whereas for everyone else tattooing is a punishment for a crime.
Gist of Idea
Thracians think tattooing adds to a girl's beauty, but elsewhere it is a punishment
Source
Anon (Diss) (Dissoi Logoi - on Double Arguments [c.401 BCE], §2)
Book Ref
'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.290